So Syria “threatens” Israel, but Israel was only “enforcing a red line”. There’s a mindset here that is not exactly open to neutral reporting. The assumption that the US and Israel can do anything militarily with obvious justification, while our enemies are barred from even threatening to retaliate, can become a form of solipsistic blindness.

War is war. We should be as subject to its laws as anyone else. Or we become as lawless as Middle East states’ foreign policies (including Israel’s).